Amazement -- Lair of Flames

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Date Posted: 17:55:30 03/05/03 Wed
Author: Marius~Orrin & Ana
Subject: Amazement

Watching the clutch with the anxious, centered gaze that is normally reserved for the desperate predator, Marius draws back in surprise as three eggs hatch. Two prowl towards females, but one dragonling heads straight and true to his arms, thrusting the wedge shaped head into them. Marius, I am Orrin! We are Bonded! The delighted mental voice thrums comfortably through his mind and senses, and a smile relaxes the boy's flushed and anxious face.

"Orrin. What about Ana?"

She'll be fine. I need you now. He says with the persistency of a hungry youngster, and before Marius knows it he is being shepherded out of the lair.

Ana watches with some amazement and a little bit of petulance. He LEFT her here. But, she reasons, he is her younger brother. She can take care of herself. Sitting down, she folds her legs to her body, hugging her bony knees and eyeing the others vying for the egg. But she was just here, enjoying her priveledge in the presence of the large red mother and the sound of silver thin eggshells hatching.

Absently taking down her braid, she twines her dull hair into two braids, twining and tugging until both braids are reasonably presentable looking. She didn't know about the others, but it was HARD to stay still at a time like this. When it was down to the wire and the chances weren't secure, a girl could get nervous.

Pushing her leggy frame to her feet, she walks along the wall of the lair, each footfall echoing in her ears like ever closer thunder as her fingers mindlessly trace the cave wall, feeling and dipping with each crag and curve. Stopping, she swivels to center her gaze on the egg, the glowing, warmly perfect sphere guarded in the forearms of maternal protection. It could be for her, or it couldn't. What could she do if it wasn't? Walk away, and come another day. Ana feels a lump constrict her throat and her stomach rise and fall in a one two punch of nervousness. This was it. The moment, the scariest, most breathless moment of her life Balling her hands into fists, she stands ready to face this moment on her feet, ready for anything as she fills her mind with thoughts of dragons and the miraces she had seen earlier, the miracles of Bonding.

A deep breath allows her to achieve something like peace as she watches, waits, and hopes.

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